Wheel toy



A. B. FOANS.

WHEEL TOY. APPLICATION FILED SEPLZI, 1920- 1,382,967. Patented June 28,1921.

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WHEEL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 28, 1921.

Application filed September 21, 1920. Serial No. 411,799.

To (H1071 0m it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW B. FOANS, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York,and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvements inWheel Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates essentially to a toy in which a driving wheelrolling along the ground rocks a platform to animate a figure suspendedabove the platform.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple inexpensive toy forthe amusement of children which is fundamentally designed to imitate adancing figure or a galloping animal arranged above the platform whenthe device is wheeled along the ground.

The novel combinations of the invention are more fully described in thefollowing specification and claims, reference being made to theaccompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of atoy embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a section taken along the line 2-2 of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. l is a perspective view of the platform.

Fig. an elevation of a modification.

In the drawing the numeral 6 designates a driving or traction wheelhaving a series of pins 7 projecting from each side of the wheel. Thewheel is rotatively mounted on an axle 8 extending beyond the sides ofthe wheel. On the axle is fixed a yoke 9 provided with lateral branches10 made to straddle the wheel. the ends of the branches being secured toa bar or handle 11 suitable for drawing the vehicle. The yoke ispreferably coiled about the axle on each side of the wheel, so as toprevent it from laterally shifting or being displaced.

Above the wheel is arranged a platform 12 having depending side members13 suitably curved to form cams for coaction with the pins of thedriving wheel. The platform is rockiugly mounted on a wire frame,including a pair of wire rods 14: extending upwardly from the axlethrough slots 15 formed in the platform.

To the upper ends of the rods is fastened a transverse strip 16, seeFig. 2, having secured to it a body section 17 of the card board figurewith jointed legs 18 in contact with the platform.

lVhen the wheel is propelled along the ground it will oscillate theplatform, and

the legs of the manikin will hop up and down thus imitating a dancingtoy on the platform. It will. be readily understood, that the pins bygliding along the cams of the depending members 13, tilt the platform asindicated in 1 in dotted lines, but when the pin is out of contact withthe cams, the rear portion of the platform gravitates downward to itsnormal position on the periphery of the wheel as shown in Fig. 5, theanimal is swingingly mounted on the upper portion of the rods 14: sothat when the traction wheel is drawn along the ground it operates theplatform interinittingly to simulate a horse galloping. i

I claim:

1. A toy comprising a wheel, a frame supported on the wheel, a figuresuspended from the frame, and a platform loosely connected to-the frameoperated by the wheel to actuate the figure.

A toy comprising an axle, a wheel mounted on the axle, a frame carriedby the axle, a figure suspended from the frame, and a platform looselyconnected to the frame rocked by the wheel to actuate the figure.

A toy comprising an axle, a wheel having pins mounted on the axle, awire frame carried by the axle. a figure suspended from the frame, and aplatform at times engaging the pins on the wheel. to actuate the figure.

a. A toy comprising an axle, a wheel having a series of lateral pinsmounted on the axle, a wire frame carried by the axle, a figuresuspended from the frame, and a platform with lateral depending membersat times engaging the pins to actuate the figure.

5. A. toy comprising an axle, a wheel having a series of lateral pinsmounted on the axle, a pair of rods extending upwardly from the axle, afigure suspended from the rods a platform rockingly mounted on the,

rods. and cam members depending from the platform for engagement withthe pins to actuate the figure.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ANDREW B. FOANS.

Witnesses SAM LEWIS, rimmer MILLER.

